Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight as I type this, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. This week's classic of Western occultism, since I've been indulging in Ross Nichols' poetry of late, is The Cosmic Shape, published in 1946, which contains his brilliant essay "An Examination of Creative Myth," which discusses the need for nature-myth and ritual as a counterbalance to the artificialities of modern life, and his related Arthurisn poem-cycle "The Cosmic Legend," as well as other poems of his and his fellow poet James Kirkup. He clearly discussed these ideas with his good friend Gerald Gardner; those ideas ended up playing a central role in the creation of Wicca as well as the transformations of 20th-century Druidry. Here's a bit from "The Cosmic Legend": 

I have made my ceremonies; the crisis
comes. None may reproduce, no water flow,
until the sword is from its sheath pulled.
Only I, the medicine-man Gawain, instructing 
at midnight Galahad, the pure one of 
spring -- only I can save you, faithless 
with the fallen leaf. I prove to you,
O my dead people, once again that
I alone am your strength.

In the first ray beating touching on the centre altar-stone
to the eye prepared at vigil-end, the vessel of the sun,
cup and heart, to Galahad. 

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Comments

Re: The first few stirrings of a wider world and some occult anatomy questions

[open_space]

Thank you, those were great answers!

1) That sounds pretty cool. Is that the same as the clair-senses? Does that mean that the life-force is not unique to the etheric plane but rather exists on all the planes simultaneously? I though that was the case and that they way that magic directs it through intentionality would be because of a trickle down effect.

2) Makes sense... and it is sad too. I always thought that my university was trying to please overworked and worried parents, employers and students who wanted to pose, party and get married but as soon as you asked a question about studying you got a blank stare. I’m glad all my grumpiness about that is somewhat justified and now being channeled into making a life of my own. In hindsight becoming lonely was a good thing.

3) Ah so that is what it’s meant to do...

4) I'll keep meditating my way into occult anatomy then. Muahaha

5) That makes total sense too. I’ll shut the f*** up. That way I’m happy having a healthy social life and they are happy not having to deal with it. It feels impolite now. I guess I’m having the urge to talk about interesting things happening to me, though sounds like a good way to train myself against following urges and as an excuse to finding occultist friends. Good that Magic Monday exists! Many thanks for that, as always.

P.D I finally found a way to search comments in your journal since we don't see the search bar that you see. It does not search only on your journal but was good enough to find some comments that I was looking for. I contacted dreamwidth support to see what can be done for that search bar to appear and if it is of interest I could share it when they reply back.

Re: The first few stirrings of a wider world and some occult anatomy questions

[ecosophia]

1) Yes.

2-5) Good!

Yes, I figured out in due time that the search bar is purely for my convenience. Sorry about that.

Re: The first few stirrings of a wider world and some occult anatomy questions

[open_space]

No complaints intended at all, I'll share the trick next time around. Thanks for another instance of MM!